Objective: Can I synthesize information from the text use my knowledge to write main idea statements? Can I use text features to help me isolate main ideas?
Agenda:
Warm up: Read!
Page 873 in red text: focus on using text features and writing an outline
Read "What Do You Know About Sharks?" (p.874) and write an outline as you go. Use text features to help with this process! (Maybe if our internet is working, we can turn our main ideas into a Haiku Deck!)
Objective: Find connections between a piece of fiction and non-fiction.
Agenda:
-Read for 20
-Read the play "The Birthmark" from SCOPE Magazine.
-Answer discussion question.
-Partner read "The Fight for Real Beauty."
-Essay writing:
In Act I, Scene I, a character says that our flaws are what make us human. What do you think he means?
According to The Birthmark and "The Fight for Real Beauty," is it wise to try to become flawless? Support your answer with evidence from both texts.
**This essay needs to be at least two paragraphs, and one complete page (every line).
scope-011413-play.pdf |
File Size: | 678 kb |
File Type: | pdf |
Download File
Can you figure out this jumble?? If you get it solved, come to me for a treat!
Today's Agenda:
I will be absent today and tomorrow. Today you will go to the library.
-Shelley will read you a story or two (Valentine's fun!)
-Make a Valentine or poem for Shelley's board
-Check out books
-Come back and read for 20. (Record in reading logs!)
Objective: Can I define theme? Do I understand how to find a theme in a story, movie, song, etc.?
Warm up: Read for 20
Theme work: The Giving Tree (You do together)
"Mother to Son" (On your own)
Class Text: War of the Wall p.326 (Partner read and answer theme questions.)